Feltre professional tricked into buying the Porsche. A color print is enough, then the civil suit gives him back the money
FELT. Never seen the Porsche for sale. And a well-known professional from Feltre had cloned a cashier’s check for the amount of 46 thousand euros, thanks to a photocopy, which he himself had taken care to send to the ghost seller. The original title was in his hands and the Unicredit branch in via Garibaldi in Feltre, after issuing it, had no intention of reimbursing it, because it had already been collected at the Bnl of Bergamo, through a check truncation operation. It took a civil suit initiated by the Feltre lawyer Davide Fent, to get the money back from Unicredit. BNL also ordered to pay the latter 50 percent of the amount.
The account holder has no responsibility, while the seller has become unavailable. He escaped with the cash desk, starting from an unspecified location in South Tyrol. It was at his house that he had put a Porsche model up for sale, which on the market for the new one, has a price of 66 thousand euros, on a website.
The customer followed the instructions, contacting him on the phone and arranging an appointment in Feltre, in front of a car practice office, in order to sign the transfer of ownership and conclude the deal. The engineer took care to have other photographs sent, while the alleged seller a photocopy of the payment title, in order to have the guarantee that he would not have made the road for nothing.
They both followed the instructions, but with different intentions. The Feltrino went to the bank to get a cashier’s check with the necessary amount and made the required photocopy. Had he sent it in black and white, there would have been no inconvenience, but he decided on the color, in order to be even more transparent.
And this played against him, beyond the intent of the other party to deceive him. Because it was enough for the seller to go to the Bergamo BNL and find an inexperienced cashier to withdraw the indicated money.
For a few days, there was no contact between the parties and this made the customer suspicious. A jump to his trusted institution and the discovery that the 46 thousand euros no longer had them in his current account.
He was very upset and cursed the check truncation, a procedure through which the bank negotiates the check without sending it to the bank indicated on the title for payment, limiting itself to sending data by electronic means.
It took a civil suit to make himself heard, which went well for the engineer, five years after the events.
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